The telecommunications industry, and 5G technology in particular, will play an increasingly important role in the entire industrial economy in the coming years. The implications of 5G go far beyond the internet of things to broader applications of big data transmission and artificial intelligence.
Whoever sets the standard for emerging 5G technology has the potential to extend surveillance and data mining on an unprecedented scale, Thomas Duesterberg warns at The Globalist this week. The way things are shaping up, it looks increasingly likely that it will be China that takes the lead, he argues, and the US and Europe had better work together to address related cybersecurity concerns.
If core 5G standards are adopted on the Chinese model, China will set the terms for how equipment manufacturers can license them. This would not only give Chinese firms the upper hand in equipment markets, but would increase danger to privacy and security of communications.
US and European industrial firms must be vigilant in maintaining a private sector-led model for standard setting in the telecoms sector, Duesterberg says. That appears all but impossible inside of China, where the lines between public and private sectors are blurred. Because of this, the US and Europe should cooperate in developing rules on foreign investment that are responsive to China’s state-directed and subsidized policies.
Duesterberg’s final recommendation is that the national security teams from NATO allies and Japan should investigate questions related to cybersecurity and the looming implementation of 5G networks.
Far from being the manifestation of protectionism, he says, taking these steps is needed to address China’s stated ambition for Chinese firms to control 70% or more of domestic consumption in 10 key industries. The failure to respond decisively will only reinforce the current trajectory towards greater protectionism.
The current 2G, 3G and 4G systems are intentionally riddled with security loopholes and backdoors that enabled widespread snooping by USA CIA and NSA. For example Angela Merkel, Kofi Annan, chinese and other diplomats had their phones tapped under the Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States in signals intelligence.
5G will have more security features and be safer than current telecommunication standards that were mainly devised by USA and its vassals. China welcomes more honest involvement and proposals to make the 5G standard even more secure from all parties.
American government appartus has spied on people around the world for years and it was revealed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA employee! Just because you do like the Chinese political system, then you have to demonize them if they take the lead in the 5G system.
CCP dudes may want to deploy 5G to dominate, but still other rivals like the Indians are dreaming ahead in deploying 6G or 7G to leapfrog the Chinese.
The author writes as if public and private are separate here in the west and no subsidization takes place. This is of course a total joke where our state dept and military write rules that enrich our corporations worldwide, the world monetary system is designed for us to have the lowest financing possible thru dollar hegemony, and even when our banks squander terribly our government bails them out with by far the largest subsidy in the history of mankind.
Google has stated the internet will be split into 2 parts in 10 years. One part controlled by China and the other part controlled by the US. If the Chinese institutes the social credit isystem which is being utilized in China today the usage of 5G technology by Asia, Euraope and the Middle East will be controlled by Bejing. This spells trouble real soon if this is allowed to happen
Google has stated the internet will be split into 2 parts in 10 years. One part controlled by China and the other part controlled by the US. If the Chinese institutes the social credit isystem which is being utilized in China today the usage of 5G technology by Asia, Euraope and the Middle East will be controlled by Bejing. This spells trouble real soon if this is allowed to happen